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The bill had many other facets to it, one was not allowing people like my son with Down syndrome to be aborted for that reason, of which I agree since there are families with completed homestudies ready to adopt babies with Down syndrome, take those babies into their loving homes just like our family did almost 30 years ago. Yep, that's a fact: National Down Syndrome Adoption Network Babies were not meant to be "expendable" goods.
I don't see any greater hardship to a "poor" mother than to the baby that is pulled from the womb, stabbed to death in the birth canal, pushed back in the womb and allowed to drop out dead which Hillary, being someone who cares about children, wants to see return.
You have to weigh one against the other. The lesser of the evils of which Hillary Clinton sure the heck isn't!
You're mixing two separate issues: aborting a fetus in the first trimester due to abnormalities, and "partial-birth" abortion.
These are not the same thing, and the bill Pence signed had nothing to do with "partial-birth" abortion, which is already illegal.
The bill Pence signed outlawed abortions within the first trimester, if the reason given by the parents was fetal abnormalities, even if those abnormalities could cause pain or death to the mother.
The bill is clearly unconstitutional and has already been struck down by courts. In his "small government" mind, however, Pence and his friends in the General Assembly think it is worthwhile to spend millions of our tax dollars defending a law that will certainly be struck down by the Supreme Court.
Pence was warned it was unconstitutional before he signed it, and he signed it anyway.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked an Indiana law prohibiting abortions based on genetic abnormalities, according to court documents.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction sought by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which argued that the new state law was unconstitutional and violated women's rights. The law was due to go into effect on Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the state on behalf of Planned Parenthood.
"The United States Supreme Court has stated in categorical terms that a state may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability," Pratt said in the court documents, which were reviewed by Reuters.
The office of Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said in a statement on Thursday that state lawyers would review Pratt's ruling and decide if they would appeal the decision.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the bill into law in March, but Planned Parenthood sued the following month to block it. The law made Indiana the second U.S. state following North Dakota to prohibit abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of disabilities such as Down syndrome.
It's telling that Indiana is the only state to fall in line with North Dakota.
You know, this North Dakota:
Quote:
The "fetal heartbeat" law — a North Dakota ban on many abortions that was the toughest in the nation when it was enacted — has been blocked permanently, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower court's ruling that overturned the law.
The measure banned abortions as soon as a heartbeat is detected in the fetus — as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
I don't know much about Pence. I heard him speak for the first time the other day. He seems very uninspiring.
No, he's no barn-burner. But then, do you really think Trump would want competition for the limelight from his VP?
What he's for is to 1) reassure religious conservatives, and motivate them to get out of the house and vote for a candidate whose religious right credentials are, shall we say, weak and 2) to reassure the establishment Rs that they at least can catch the ear of the VP, and maybe *he* can get Trump to listen to what the establishment concerns are.
Not additional funding for PP, but not being held hostage to a CUT in funding, not to mention a $500,000,000 defunding parts of the ACA, eliminating some environmental protections, and reversing the ban on flying the confederate flag in military cemeteries. Because all those provisions inserted by the GOP are entirely and completely related to Zika funding, not. Nope, sorry, this one is on the GOP - they did not have to insert those poison pills and assume they could force the Senate to swallow them.
Bottom Line -
Zika has zippo to do with Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics and no Money or Zika unless the Abortion Clinics get MONEY. It won't play well with middle America, it does play well with the Leftist Agenda.
Mike Pence was in serious danger of losing his re-election bid in Indiana.
He currently has a 40% approval rating in Indiana.
He was elected in 2012 with 49.6% of the vote, to John Gregg's 46.4% of the vote. As a contrast, that same election, Mitt Romney won Indiana 54.13% to 43.93%.
Romney won Indiana by almost 11%, and Pence won Indiana by about 3%. That tells me a lot of Hoosier voters split their ticket.
He was never that popular, even in a clearly Red state. I don't see how he is going to do much to help Trump.
If there is one thing you can say about Republicans, they aren't very smart.
"You tell people a lie 3 times, they will believe anything. You tell people what they want to hear, play to their fantasies, and then you close the deal. "*
I would like to see Newt as the VP. Trump is looking for an attack dog and Pence seemed more like a poodle.
Daylux is pretty much right. Trump has more support from evangelicals than Romney did at this point. I've been saying this for years. People do not vote based on their religious views as much as pundits seem to believe they do. Pence was chosen because he is a safe choice. He lacks the extreme amount of baggage that Gingrich brings along with him and barely right of center with a tendency for controversy like Christie. He also does not outshine Trump which I think is a quality Trump is most looking for. Trump is his own attack dog. He doesn't need someone else or even desire them to do the job.
Safer doesn't mean he is a safe option though. Mike Pence is the most conservative VP Candidate since the late 60's. He has also very publicly come out against some of the policies that Trump has personally been very vocal on. Lastly, he was a talk show host for several years in Indiana in the 90's. Given how sloppy Trump has been in other areas I can the vetting job done on candidates was rather thin. I can only imagine some of the gems that were said during the height of the Clinton administration by him or callers on his show. Trump has no team effectively in place to defend him so if something is found there is the potential for a lot of headaches in the months to come.
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